Louisiana Tech's Business Analytics Day to feature national speakers, focus on 'big data' issues

12:03 AM,
Dec. 3, 2013

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The Business Analytics Group of the College of Business at Louisiana Tech University will feature two nationally renowned speakers along with a number of local and regional experts as part of its first annual Business Analytics Day on Jan. 10 at the Louisiana Tech Shreveport Center.

Bill Franks, chief analytics officer of Teradata and author of the book "Taming the Big Data Tidal Wave," will open the event with a discussion of big data issues. Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter Alan Schwarz, national correspondent for education with The New York Times, author of the book "The Numbers ...